At the end of the last weekday of trading on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) this week.
A total of 11,508,500 shares in 601 deals, corresponding to a market value of KES 411,574,281.00, were traded.
Compared with the previous NSE trading day (Thursday, January 23), today’s data shows 52% decline in volume, 46% decline in turnover, and 18% decline in deals.
The current NSE market capitalization is KES 2.51 trillion.
In the aggregate, 44 NSE listed equities participated in trading, ending with 18 ✅gainers and 14 ?losers.
Uchumi Supermarket Plc [UCHM] led the gainers with ✅3.70% share price appreciation closing at KES 0.28 per share, followed by:
✅Kapchorua Plc [KAPC] (+1.88%)
✅Olympia Capital Holdings [OCH] (+1.82%)
✅Bamburi Cement [BAMB] (+1.81%).
On the losing side, Home Afrika Plc [HAFR] came out last with an end-of-day price depreciation of ?5.45% closing at KES 0.52 per share, followed by:
?Stanbic Holdings Plc [SBIC] (-4.95%)
?Sameer Africa Plc [SMER] (-3.4%)
?Eaagads Limited [EGAD] (-3.37%).
Safaricom Plc [SCOM] recorded the highest volume of 7.2 million traded shares, followed by:
➖Equity Group Holdings Plc [EQTY] (1.76m)
➖KCB Group Plc [KCB] (1.16m)
➖Barclays Bank of Kenya [BBK] (224,600).
➡️The benchmark NSE All Share Index [NASI] dropped ?0.55 points to close at 164.98
➡️The NSE 20 Share Index gained ✅0.19 points to close at 2642.50
➡️The NSE 25 Share Index dropped ?5.83 points to close at 4075.32
The Derivatives Market closed the day with no trades, compared to yesterday’s 3 trades valued at Kes 128,500.
The secondary Bond market at the NSE had 77 deals worth Kes 1.45 Billion, a slight decline in value but an increase deals on the Fixed income segment as compared to Yesterday’s 59 deals valued at Kes 1.83 Billion
Source: NSE
Data Compiled by Trading Room.
